Topic: Confederate States Army

As with all wars, the Civil War had a great impact on its soldiers and their families. As Alexis Girardin Brown explains in the Michigan State University Press, many women stepped out of their sheltered existence voluntarily entering the public sphere and ...

Black Confederates

(Delivered to the SCV camp of Bryan/College Station on 25 February 2010AD)The subject of blacks and the is an unpleasant portionof history for many reasons. Majormeans the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy, thatour youth will be ...

J.C. Pemberton

He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated from West Point in 1837. Pemberton served in the Seminole War and in the Mexican War.

Joseph Wheeler

He was born near Augusta, Georgia, and graduated from West Point in 1859. Wheeler was made brigadier general in the regular army in 1900, the year he retired..

Dixie

Aspects of the topic Dixie are discussed in the following places at Britannica. His song "Dixie," written in 1859, was originally a "walk-around," or concluding number for a minstrel show. The name came from the title of a song composed in 1859 ...
Arkansas museum unveils 1851 gun used to train military school soldiers, seized for Civil WarAn 1851 artillery gun carried into battle by Arkansas military school students who joined the Confederate Army was unveiled in its home state Thursday after nearly 150 years.The ...